Scaffolding

Vygotsky defined scaffolding instruction as the “role of teachers and others in supporting the learner’s development and providing support structures to get to that next stage or level”

In scaffolding a more knowledgeable person helps individual learners by providing them with the support they would need to move forward to  complete a task. The role of the expert is that of a guide who shows the path  to take the learners to the final destination. Some of the key elements of scaffolded instruction should be :

• to have common goal
• ongoing diagnosis and support
• dialogues nad interactions
• fading and transfering of responsibility.

Scaffolding helps to motivate or enlist the child's intert related to the task. It helps in breaking and making the task more manageable and achievable for the learners. providing them instructions and reducing the pressure and frustration.

One of the key features of scaffolding is that it is temporary and fades away when the task is achieved.